Stanford's Kirk wins top swimmer award

Staff and News Services

Published
4:00 am PST, Friday, April 2, 2004

Stanford senior Tara Kirk won the Honda Award Thursday as the nation's top female collegiate swimmer. She is thereby in the running for the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the top female collegiate athlete every summer.

Kirk set a world short-course record in the 100-meter breaststroke and an American record in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA championships last month.

Soccer

Cal volunteer assistant coach Maite Zabala, a standout goalkeeper for the Bears from 1997-2000 and a former WUSA player, has joined Athletic Bilbao of Spain's SuperLiga for the remainder of the 2004 season.

Softball

#16 Oregon St. 10, St. Mary's 1: Lisa Allen and Vanessa Iapala homered for the Beavers (31-9) in Moraga. The Gaels (7-24) tallied only four hits.